Friday of 5th Week in Easter You Are My Friends Fraternal love among Christians, but also love of all people for one another, without boundaries or reservations is inseparable from friendship with God. Both loves are in fact one. For Christians, human relations have a religious content and express a religious relation. For […]
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Thursday of 5th Week in Easter All Are Welcome in the Church In full collegiality, the apostles decided at the Council of Jerusalem that the Church is to be open to all without any distinction. All are saved in the same way: through Jesus Christ. God loves all people. That must have been a […]
Wednesday of 5th Week in Easter One in the True Vine — Factions in the Church Implanted by baptism in Christ, the true vine, and therefore, by vocation and by our being Christians, we are called to be one in him, however we often fall apart into factions because of our background of […]
Tuesday of 5th Week in Easter The Peace of Christ In carrying out his mission of proclaiming the Gospel, Paul and Barnabas with him, is persecuted, stoned, driven from one place to another. He doesn’t give up; he continues founding local communities and giving them a basic structure of leadership, so that they […]
Monday of 5th Week in Easter God Living in Us In the first reading, Luke shows Paul working the same signs among pagans as Peter among the Jews (here the cure of a crippled person), and preaching the same message. In the Gospel, Christ speaks of God’s indwelling. In the Old Testament, […]
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER See How They Love One Another If you would be asked to define what is most typical of our Christian community, could it be said of us, as of the first Christians, “See how they love one another”? According to our Lord himself, the mark of his disciples should be that […]
MATTHIAS, APOSTLE, Feast Matthias was elected by the apostles to replace Judas, the traitor, because he had been a disciple of Jesus from the very beginning, from the time when Jesus was baptized by John until the ascension. His qualification was, then, that he could witness to the risen Christ. And so should we. […]
Friday of 4th Week in Easter The Way, the Truth, the Life In the synagogue, Paul proclaims the risen Christ. That Christ is risen is not merely an important event of the past: it is, as Paul says, “a message of salvation meant for you. We have come here to tell you the Good […]
Thursday of 4th Week in Easter Servants With Christ In his preaching, Paul presents Christ as the one who is coming which the whole Old Testament was leading to, and John the Baptist as the immediate announcer of Jesus’ appearance of that fulfillment. Jesus had told his disciples quite insistently and emphatically that neither […]
Wednesday of 4th Week in Easter Christ Our Light Eternal Life “I came not to judge the world but to save the world,” says Jesus to us today. What he came to bring us is life, life without end, eternal life. He comes as light in our world. If we believe in him, we […]